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Pricing participating policies under the Meixner process and stochastic volatility

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posted on 2024-11-02, 00:51 authored by Brett Shanahan, Farzad Alavi Fard, John van der Hoek
We propose a model for the valuation of participating life insurance products under the Meixner process, which belongs to the family of semi-heavy tailed processes. This particular model assumption is extremely desirable as it captures the stylised features of the return distribution, with existing moment generating functions. The highlight of the paper is the analytical solution derived for minimising the relative entropy between the historical and risk-neutral measures, when driving a pricing kernel. Further, we capture the stochastic volatility effect using an accurate polynomial approximation technique. Finally, to highlight the practical applications, we conduct a simulation experiment.

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Journal

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal

Volume

7

Start page

559

End page

583

Total pages

25

Publisher

Taylor and Francis Scandinavia

Place published

Norway

Language

English

Copyright

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor and Francis Group

Former Identifier

2006062032

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2016-06-16

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